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On the Endangered List

awá youth                                                                           Sebastião Salgado
There are about 800,000 Indians in Brazil, making up at least 239 cultures speaking about 190 languages. The 100 or so "uncontacted" Awá Indians of the ethno-environmental protection post of Juriti in the Brazilian Amazon are trying to hang onto their traditional way of life despite the encroachment of illegal loggers and other invasores: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/12/awa-indians-endangered-amazon-tribe
   (slideshow): http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/12/awa-indians-amazon-tribe-photos

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